Peter Fröberg Idling

Peter Fröberg Idling

Peter Fröberg Idling (* 1972 ) is a Swedish writer and literary critic, among others in Dagens Nyheter and the magazine Vi.

He made his debut in 2006 with Pol Pot's smile: A Swedish journey through the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge ( Pol Pots leende ), which was published in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Russia and Switzerland in addition to Sweden and Germany. The book was nominated in 2007 for the Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize, in 2011 for the Swiss Jan Michalski Prize and the Polish Kapuscinski Prize.

The novel “Sång till den storm som ska komma” was nominated in 2012 for the prestigious August Prize .

criticism

• Regarding the novel Gesang für eine Gende Sturm (2015): It's amazing what wonderful things Fröberg Idling has made of this material. At no point does it slip into kitsch. This is due on the one hand to the artful construction of the novel, on the other hand to the atmospherically dense language (Sibylle Peine, Recklinghäuser Zeitung , March 4, 2015).

Works

• Response (Pocky, 2002)
• Pol Pots leende (Atlas förlag, 2006), German Pol Pot's smile: A Swedish journey through the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge (Edition Book Guild, 2013)
• Slump (Hotel Gothia Towers, 2008)
• Våld till vardags (Ordfront, 2008)
• Sång till den storm som ska komma (Nature & Culture, 2012), German song for an approaching storm: Roman, (Insel Verlag, 2015)

Web links

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